On BTI Aging Rejuvenation in Memory Address Decoders

Memory designs require timing margins to compensate for aging and fabrication process variations. With technology downscaling, aging mechanisms became more apparent, and larger margins are considered necessary. This, in return, means a larger area requirement and lower performance for the memory. Bias Temperature Instability (BTI) is one of the...

Software-Based Mitigation for Memory Address Decoder Aging

Integrated circuits typically contain design margins to compensate for aging. As aging impact increases with technology scaling, bigger margins are necessary to achieve the desired reliability. However, these increased margins lead to a reduced performance and lower yield. Alternatively, mitigation schemes can be deployed to reduce the aging....

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Flexural response of cementitious mortar bars reinforced by 3D printed polymeric mesh

In order to improve the behaviour of cementitious material under in bending, 3D printed polymeric lattice meshes were used as an alternative to fibre reinforcement. Lattice meshes with different cell sizes and different surface roughness were designed and printed. Plain mortar samples and reinforced samples were casted. After curing, 4-point...

A method for determining the remaining time to chloride induced corrosion initiation of existing concrete structures

Owners of concrete structures would benefit from knowing when to expect corrosion initiation in a particular structure. Presently, no accepted procedures for testing existing structures for the remaining time to corrosion initiation are available. This paper proposes such a procedure, based on our experience and additional considerations. From...

Durability of fibre reinforced cementitious composites: Coupling mechanical and chloride environment loads

Fibre reinforced cementitious composites (FRCC) may be characterized by their improved performance namely in terms of tensile ductility, accompanied by multiple cracking, and potentially lower permeability to liquid and gas in cracked state. Cracking, which is nearly inevitable, can occur due to applied structural loading, shrinkage, chemical...

Investigation of the potential use of calcium alginate capsules for self-healing in porous asphalt

Incorporating self-healing technology in asphalt pavement has been demonstrated to have great potential to prolong its service life. To this aim, the calcium alginate capsules encapsulating rejuvenator were manufactured and proved to have sufficient thermal stability and mechanical resistance to survive the asphalt production and compaction...

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